Calendar

February 2020:      

THE 100-YEAR-OLD MAN WHO CLIMBED OUT OF THE WINDOW AND DISAPPEARED

Time: 7.30pm
Warburton: Tues 11 Feb
Healesville: Tues 18 Feb

• Sweden - 2013
• Comedy   114m   M (sub-titled)

On his 100th birthday, Alan Karlsson leaps out of his nursing home window and begins an unexpected, fantastical journey. Directed by Felix Herrigan. From the best-selling book by Jonas Jonasson. 

Winner: Audience Choice Award - Chicago International Film Festival 2014

SECRETS AND LIES

Time: 7.30pm
Warburton: Tues 10 March
Healesville: Tues 17 March (screening cancelled)

• UK - 1996
• Drama   136m  M

When a young black woman discovers that her birth mother is an underprivileged white woman, their ensuing meeting brings family secrets bubbling to the surface. Brenda Blethyn and Timothy Spall are outstanding in one of writer/director Mike Leigh's finest films.

Winner: Best British Film - BAFTA 1997

April 2020:              

LIVING IS EASY WITH EYES CLOSED

Time: 7.30pm
Warburton: Tues 14 April  (cancelled)
Healesville: Tues 21 April  (cancelled)

• Spain - 2013
• Comedy/Drama  108m    M   (sub-titled)

In Spain in 1966 John Lennon was on location for the movie How I won the war. A teacher of English, on a quest to meet him, picks up two hitch-hikers. Javier Camara stars in this warm, humorous film directed by David Trueba.

Winner: Best Film - Goya Awards 2014

AMOUR

Time: 7.30pm
Warburton: Tues 12 May   (screening cancelled)
Healesville: Tues 19 May     (screening cancelled)

• France - 2012 
• Drama    127m   M (sub-titled)
  

George (Jean-Louis Trintignant) and Anne (Emanuelle Riva) are retired music teachers. When Anne suffers a stroke, the couple's bond of love is severely tested. Directed by Michael Haneke.

Multi-award winner including Best Foreign Language Film Oscar 2012

GOLDSTONE

Time: 7.30pm
Warburton: Tues 9 June    (screening cancelled)
Healesville: Tues 16 June    (screening cancelled)

• Australia - 2016

• Drama   110m     M

Indigenous detective, Jay Swan (Aaron Pedersen), arrives in the outback town of Goldstone on a missing persons enquiry and uncovers a web of crime and corruption. This was the second film by Ivan Sen to feature the Jay Swan character following the success of Mystery Road in 2013.

Winner: Best Film - Film Critics Circle of Australia Awards 2017

ARCTIC

Time: 7.30pm
Warburton: Tues 14 July      (screening cancelled)
Healesville: Tues 21 July     (screening cancelled)

• Iceland - 2018  
• Adventure/Drama  98m  M    (sub-titled)

The sole survivor of a plane crash in the Arctic (Mads Mikkelsen in excellent form)  embarks on a deadly trek to make his way back to civilisation in Joe Penna's thrilling "man versus nature" tale.

THE LAST SUIT

Time: 7.30pm
Warburton: Tues 11 August    (screening cancelled)
Healesville: Tues 18 August    (screening cancelled)

• Argentina - 2017
• Drama - 91m    M   (sub-titled) 

An 88-year-old Jewish tailor runs away from Buenos Aires to Poland where he hopes to find a friend who saved him from certain death at the end of World War 2.  A touching and emotional film, directed by Pablo Solarz and starring Miguel Angel Sola.

Winner: Best Feature Film - Miami Film Festival 2018

THE CRYING GAME

Time: 7.30pm
Warburton: Tues 8 Sept
Healesville: Tues 15 Sept

• UK - 1992 
• Drama/Thriller - 110m       M
  

A British soldier kidnapped by IRA terrorists soon befriends one of his captors who then becomes drawn into the soldier's world. Directed by Neil Jordan and starring Stephen Rae and Forrest Whitaker.

Winner: Best British Film - BAFTA 1993

THE GRAPES OF WRATH

Time: 7.30pm
Warburton: Tues 13 Oct
Healesville: Tues 20 Oct

• USA - 1940
• Drama - 129m      PG

Forced off their land during the Great Depression, a Midwest family sets out for California hoping for better times. John Ford's classic film of John Steinbeck's novel stars Hentry Fonda in one of the key roles of his career.

Winner: Best Director - Oscars 1941

THE SECRET IN THEIR EYES

Time: 7.30pm
Warburton: Tues 10 Nov
Healesville: Tues 17 Nov

• Argentina - 2009
• Mystery/Drama - 129m    MA       (sub-titled)

A retired criminal investigator (Ricardo Darin) is haunted by an unsolved homicide case from his past and his unrequited love for his former superior.  Juan Jose Camanella's multi-layered drama is a real spellbinder.

Winner: Best Foreign Language Film Oscar 2010

WHAT'S UP, DOC?

Time: 7.30pm
Warburton: Tues 8 Dec
Healesville: Tues 15 Dec

• USA - 1972
• Comedy   94m      G

The accidental mix-up of four identical overnight bags leads to a series of increasingly wild and wacky situations. Peter Bogdanovich's homage to the screwball comedies of the 30's stars Ryan O'Neal and Barbra Streisand.

Winner: Best Screen Comedy - Writers Guild of America 1973

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